California at Oregon
Saturday, October 15, 1955 Share
Oregon beat California 21–0. It was their 25th meeting; after it, California led the series 15–9–1.
FinalHigh 62°F, low 44°FAttendance 21,515
In the newspapers

Daily Sitka sentinel and the arrowhead press, Alaska, October 18, 1955, page 4
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CAL STUDENTS HANG BEAR HEAD COACH Berkeley, Calif. (P) Chancel- Tor Clark Kerr of the Urliver- sity of California quickly rail- jed to the defense of football coach Lynn o. Pappy| Wal dorf, who was hung in effigy on campus gate Monday. Waldorf’s, whose Bear squad was trimmed 21–0 last Saturday by Oregon, wryly told sports writers, tits one of the haz- ards of the coaching profession Kerr said few students who considered themselves ‘‘vigil- antes” were responsible. Waldonf’s California team next Saturday will meet South ern California. 33–21 victor last week over powerful Wisconsin of the Big Ten.
Public-domain newspapers from the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America, found through the American Stories dataset (Dell and Harvard, CC BY 4.0). The text is the machine reading of the page, mistakes and all.
Before kickoff
Our ratings going in
Our ratings (scores only)
Oregon 54% to win. Elo’s favorite won.
The series
Every California–Oregon gameOregon leads 42–39–1 in 82 meetings, counting the 57 since this game.
| 2023 | Oregon 63, California 19 | |
| 2022 | Oregon 42, California 24 | |
| 2021 | Oregon 24, California 17 | |
| 2020 | California 21, Oregon 17 | |
| 2019 | Oregon 17, California 7 | |
| 2018 | Oregon 42, California 24 |
Around this game
California
- Next gamevs. USCOct. 22, 1955
- SeasonCalifornia in 1955
- ProgramCalifornia history and records
Oregon
- Next gameat ArizonaOct. 22, 1955
- SeasonOregon in 1955
- ProgramOregon history and records

